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Granny Crabapple wrote:

> > > I never use more than one floor. Control-freak, me.
> This is a fib. Current crop of houses have two stories -
> no fundaments. 8)

What is a fib? Okay, this is. I mean, what does fib mean? Do I
mean...

> > > If you don't use fundaments, do you level the terrain
> > > before building?
> Oh yes. The whole plot, before I start. Landscaping comes
> later.

Hills. I like hills. And holes. Hills with holes. I told you
about the China-deep ponds, didn't I? I found that if you raise
the floor up from China again, you get mighty scary-looking pikes
in your pond. Paint them red for your Vlad the Impaler-needs.

> I like having height differences on my lots. I built an
> > > awful house on a hill, three separate pieces
> > > connected with stairs. It is not convenient in any
> > > known sense of the word, but it sure is mighty
> > > ridiculous!
> No-no-no! Such houses are artistic! Progressive. Er..
> Modern? Anything, but not ridiculous.

It's all of these and more. It's also inhabited by the most sexy
sim currently in town. He's started an affair with my female
self, Tae. She is to have a child with my male self, Mon, but
things are already getting complicated. Yum.

> My Cliff-fall House
> must be on about six or seven levels, top down to the
> swimming pool. Stairs everywhere. Those floating ones,

Floating ones?

> Never ran the house with toddlers/children yet.

Convenient. Toddles can't use stairs.

> > > How can you have a house without storeys but with
> > > stairs?
> The same way as you said, about the three pieces
> connected by stairs. 8)

Ah.

> > > Where do the stairs go to?
> Up... and down... Or down and up. What do you mean?

See the "Ah" above. All is clear now. I must write a book about
it.

> 8( Would you like pictures?

Yes!

> > > What is it you have agains fundaments?
> Up/down level from kitchen to garden makes me mad.

Once I figured out how to remove stairs and why they cost more
than in the picture, I had no problems with them.

> > > You can put wallpaper on them so they fit in with the
> > > rest of the house.
> WALLPAPER!!!! On the OUTSIDE??? Holy smoke!!! What's
> the paper made out of?

Pixels? What's the problem, it never rains in Simsville. I'm
happy though, that stone-looked spoiled my goth houses. Now, if
there was a way to get the inside of the walls, as seen by a
cut-out view, black instead of brown I'd be platinum.

> So a 'foundation cream' would be smeared all inside a
> building trench before the concrete gets poured in..
> right?

🙂

T.

 

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Taemon wrote:

>
> What is a fib? Okay, this is. I mean, what does fib mean? Do I
> mean...

Fib is short fibula, which is a bone in the lower leg....

But I think Granny meant the other meaning- to lie or a lie. As in, she
thinks you are lying when you say you never use more than one story.

I wonder if she means story as in tale often told in books or in pubs,
or level of house?

English is a fun toy.

-georg

 

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Well, no, granny was not saying he was lying, I believe she was saying that
she was fibbing. And no one that i know of ever shortens 'fibula' unless
maybe a doctor would. According to dictionary.com a fib is "An
insignificant or childish lie"

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> Taemon wrote:
>
> >
> > What is a fib? Okay, this is. I mean, what does fib mean? Do I
> > mean...
>
> Fib is short fibula, which is a bone in the lower leg....
>
> But I think Granny meant the other meaning- to lie or a lie. As in, she
> thinks you are lying when you say you never use more than one story.
>
> I wonder if she means story as in tale often told in books or in pubs,
> or level of house?
>
> English is a fun toy.
>
> -georg

 

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Bluegenie2 wrote:

> Well, no, granny was not saying he was lying, I believe she was saying that
> she was fibbing. And no one that i know of ever shortens 'fibula' unless
> maybe a doctor would. According to dictionary.com a fib is "An
> insignificant or childish lie"

Ah, mea cupla. Did not follow the conversation closely enough.

I work oon the fringe of the medical profession. tib-fib is common for
the two bones there.

-georg

 

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georg wrote:

> Taemon wrote:
> > What is a fib? Okay, this is. I mean, what does fib
> > mean? Do I mean...
> Fib is short fibula, which is a bone in the lower leg....
> But I think Granny meant the other meaning- to lie or a
> lie. As in, she thinks you are lying when you say you
> never use more than one story.
>
> I wonder if she means story as in tale often told in
> books or in pubs, or level of house?

Isn't the level thing "storey"? Anway, it wasn't a lie. I want to
have an overview.

T.

 

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Taemon wrote:

> georg wrote:
>
>
> Isn't the level thing "storey"? Anway, it wasn't a lie. I want to
> have an overview.
>
> T.
>
>

Nope. Story works for floors and books. Storey isn't correct. But that
is comprehensible.

-georg

 

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georg <thegeorg@stny.rr.com> wrote in
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> Taemon wrote:
>
>> georg wrote:
>>
>>
>> Isn't the level thing "storey"? Anway, it wasn't a lie. I want to
>> have an overview.


> Nope. Story works for floors and books. Storey isn't correct. But
> that is comprehensible.

Storey *is* perfectly correct. In British English. We find it
acceptable to have different spellings for a tale and a floor, oddly
enough. ;-)

Jac

 

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Jacqui wrote:

> georg <thegeorg@stny.rr.com> wrote in
> news😀MSJd.2500$8H2.562@twister.nyroc.rr.com:
>
>
>>Taemon wrote:
>>
>>
>>>georg wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>Isn't the level thing "storey"? Anway, it wasn't a lie. I want to
>>>have an overview.
>
>
>
>>Nope. Story works for floors and books. Storey isn't correct. But
>>that is comprehensible.
>
>
> Storey *is* perfectly correct. In British English. We find it
> acceptable to have different spellings for a tale and a floor, oddly
> enough. ;-)
>
> Jac

Well, that I did not know, living on the wrong side of the pond. The u
rules I have worked out. Story/ey I did not know.

Of course, I do know the difference between the ground floor and the
first floor, but they always say floor with that, and not storey. Thanks!

-georg

 

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"Taemon" <Taemon@zonnet.nl> wrote in message
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> georg wrote:
>
>> Taemon wrote:
>> > What is a fib? Okay, this is. I mean, what does fib
>> > mean? Do I mean...
>> Fib is short fibula, which is a bone in the lower leg....
>> But I think Granny meant the other meaning- to lie or a
>> lie. As in, she thinks you are lying when you say you
>> never use more than one story.

No!! I meant I, as in ME was telling fibs when I said I only used one
floor!!
I have branched out... Not in fibbing, but keeping bedrooms upstairs.
>>
>> I wonder if she means story as in tale often told in
>> books or in pubs, or level of house?
>
> Isn't the level thing "storey"? Anway, it wasn't a lie. I want to
> have an overview.
>
Storey... Story... Aw, nuts. The voice from the other room says it should
have an 'e'. My fault. 8(

Granny.

 

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"Jacqui" <sirlawrenceoblivion@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> georg <thegeorg@stny.rr.com> wrote in
> news😀MSJd.2500$8H2.562@twister.nyroc.rr.com:
>
>> Taemon wrote:
>>
>>> georg wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Isn't the level thing "storey"? Anway, it wasn't a lie. I want to
>>> have an overview.
>
>
>> Nope. Story works for floors and books. Storey isn't correct. But
>> that is comprehensible.
>
> Storey *is* perfectly correct. In British English. We find it
> acceptable to have different spellings for a tale and a floor, oddly
> enough. ;-)
>
Shows how much I knew. 8((((
We should have listened to GB Shaw.

Granny.

 

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georg wrote:

> Taemon wrote:
> > Isn't the level thing "storey"? Anway, it wasn't a lie.
> > I want to have an overview.
> Nope. Story works for floors and books. Storey isn't
> correct. But that is comprehensible.

Maybe the "storey" thing is a UK/US-difference? Where are you
from? We Dutch tend to speak UK English.

T.

 

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Taemon wrote:

> georg wrote:
>
>
>>Taemon wrote:
>>
>>>Isn't the level thing "storey"? Anway, it wasn't a lie.
>>>I want to have an overview.
>>
>>Nope. Story works for floors and books. Storey isn't
>>correct. But that is comprehensible.
>
>
> Maybe the "storey" thing is a UK/US-difference? Where are you
> from? We Dutch tend to speak UK English.
>
> T.
>
>

Upstate NY, and yes, someone corrected me that you're doing fine. I'm
sorry. Normally I am better about the Queen's English, but that one I
did not know.

-georg

 

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georg wrote:

> Taemon wrote:
> > Maybe the "storey" thing is a UK/US-difference? Where
> > are you from? We Dutch tend to speak UK English.
> Upstate NY, and yes, someone corrected me that you're
> doing fine. I'm sorry. Normally I am better about the
> Queen's English, but that one I did not know.

That's okay. I've got it from an album title anyway 🙂 The God
Machine's "Scenes from the Second Storey". I first thought they
meant a tale, too.

T.

 

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> Good Heavens to Betsy. You really do take the game seriously, don't you?

It really depends on my mood really. Right now... I really don't care. I
have a headache.

> I just shove all my sims in a collections of tubs (one householder to
each
tub) fill tubs with visitors and rotate the householders after a while.

The only thing with hottubs though...is that doesn't really help with the
long term relationship points
And once one of my sims makes friends with someone, I like to make them best
friends..
it kinda goes with my story ideas. And then there's the splash...
Why just one animation? why not dunk? why not "sip martini"??
Have you noticed a lot of Townies are popularity aspiration? How boring..
I was wondering why they kept calling my sims every hour on the hour.
Thank God I make a habitual practise of weeding out the uglies the annoying.

>
> I just finished fixing Ivy Valentine's scowl, now she looks like a
>> regal bitch, which is exactly what I was looking for.
>
> 8))) A... HANDbag?'

I didn't get this one...however I was playing Vampire the Masquerade:
Bloodlines to real late last night
so I'm not getting much today..
constant buzzing in head.

>
> Make her a Moriarty. Big forehead, little beady eyes and a scowl. She will
> like him at once by the sound of it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/deelink/Sim%20Stuff/ivy.jpg
Would they make a good couple? Thats the best photo I have taken of her..
she looks bored there..

> Hmmm. I see tears ahead, here. You expect those brats to make logical
> deductions?

My mistake....what a horrible mistake
Now the little tramp Chloe, is hated by both
It just goes to show that no matter what...you can't 100% control them..
grr

>
> You what i want to try? A fireball death. Remember I mentioned that if you
> take a Sim at the height of a high-dive, freeze them, then reduce all
> life-signs to zero they hit the water, splash a bit then die? Well what if
> you tombstoned them to die by fire when frozen?
> Would they become as a meteor falling to the splash?
> Spectacular way to go. Infernal spontaneous combustion during a swallow
> dive.

I don't call you a Nasty God...I *know* you are a nasty god! lol
Whoa..


> Depends what you call 'town house' I think. I am not at all sure what
> they are 8(
> I 'think' they may be terraced, and perhaps three floors. Must stop saying
> stories, as in story. Once upon a time....
>
Yeah terrace houses, usually two storeys...
sometimes three...we have a lot here in my neighbourhood and they are very
pretty
>
>
> I remember when I saw Jaws in the cinema. It was raining when we ca,me
> out. A voice ahead of us called:. 'For God's sake, keep away from that
> puddle!'
>
> Sharks are beautiful and designed to perfection but I wouldn;t like to
> meet one. When you think of it most things are well designed but... like
> spiders... warthogs... that man down the road who can lift a Mini with
> one hand but talks in grunts?
>

Sharks to me are not beautiful, too cold and evil
and if you touch one, your hand would start bleeding because of their razor
sharp scales
and then that blood would reach the nose of the shark and then they do you
the favour of chomping first your hand then the rest of your body.
I don't like sharks
hehe puddle..

That's what the Sims 2 needs.. a scary movie channel on the TV so that Sims
could cuddle and be scared...and stuff.
that would be cool

- D

 

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>
>> Good Heavens to Betsy. You really do take the game seriously, don't you?
>
> It really depends on my mood really. Right now... I really don't care. I
> have a headache.

Sympathy.

>
> > I just shove all my sims in a collections of tubs (one householder to
> each
> tub) fill tubs with visitors and rotate the householders after a while.

>
> The only thing with hottubs though...is that doesn't really help with the
> long term relationship points
> And once one of my sims makes friends with someone, I like to make them
> best friends..
> it kinda goes with my story ideas. And then there's the splash...
> Why just one animation? why not dunk? why not "sip martini"??

Oh, absolutely! That splashing as a form of indicating... well, something or
other always struck me as a daft idea. As is the way glasses are removed
when a Sim puts on a bathing dress. if I did that i would be walking into
walls and talking to tree-trunks... Hmmm. That sounds familiar.

>>
>> I just finished fixing Ivy Valentine's scowl, now she looks like a
>>> regal bitch, which is exactly what I was looking for.
>>
>> 8))) A... HANDbag?'
>
> I didn't get this one...

Not important. Shades of a very properly-proper Lady in The Importance of
being Ernest.

>>
>> Make her a Moriarty. Big forehead, little beady eyes and a scowl. She
>> will like him at once by the sound of it.
>
> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/deelink/Sim%20Stuff/ivy.jpg
> Would they make a good couple? Thats the best photo I have taken of her..
> she looks bored there..

Coo, what a lovely picture, resolution-wise. No, I fear Moriarty would not
be attracted to something that looks that young and modern (who am I trying
to kid? These Sims will chase after anything that moves given half the
chance.) I did move in a glamorous, but deadly, Victorian-dressed female to
pad out the household - and do the cooking - but Colnel Moran took one look
at her and started talking .. I mean stalking. They are in love now. NOT my
doing.
Strangely, Wretched Moriarty met Mrs Hudson in the Ruptured Duck and went
for her in a big way. But it's only to get inside information on Holmes'
household.
>
>> Hmmm. I see tears ahead, here. You expect those brats to make logical
>> deductions?
>
> My mistake....what a horrible mistake
> Now the little tramp Chloe, is hated by both
> It just goes to show that no matter what...you can't 100% control them..
> grr

Just thought. Arrogant English upper-class bitches need a good Roman nose to
look down. (Rather stereotyped, I know, but this is a game of icons.) All
nose and teeth. I must try it...
Drat! And the men need monocles? And no chins....
>
>>
>> You what i want to try? A fireball death. Remember I mentioned that if
>> you take a Sim at the height of a high-dive, freeze them, then reduce all
>> life-signs to zero they hit the water, splash a bit then die? Well what
>> if you tombstoned them to die by fire when frozen?
>> Would they become as a meteor falling to the splash?
>> Spectacular way to go. Infernal spontaneous combustion during a swallow
>> dive.
>
> I don't call you a Nasty God...I *know* you are a nasty god! lol
> Whoa..

Unfair! I love and cherish my Sims <snigger> But when you gotta go, hey.
Why not sent them out gloriously?
>
>
>> Depends what you call 'town house' I think. I am not at all sure what
>> they are 8(
>> I 'think' they may be terraced, and perhaps three floors. Must stop
>> saying stories, as in story. Once upon a time....
>>
> Yeah terrace houses, usually two storeys...
> sometimes three...we have a lot here in my neighbourhood and they are very
> pretty

Gottcha. pretty and small? In this area (and most of UK I suspect) the new
houses going up lately I have dubbed 'Pixie Homes'. They seem to be
detached, if a foot gap between adjoining walls counts... They all have lots
of gingerbread carving rounf totally unapropriate gables and front-door
embelishments, and the windows have timy panes, usually in bathches of about
thirty... Whew, think of the cleaning... and like maxi Sims homes, once you
put a three piece suite in a room there isn;t room for anything else. Tiny
inside, and chi-chi outside.
I was in a house recently where, once sitting on the loo, whiche faced the
door, there was a foot gap in front of my knees. Taller people beware.
>>
>>
>
> That's what the Sims 2 needs.. a scary movie channel on the TV so that
> Sims could cuddle and be scared...and stuff.
> that would be cool
>
Children hide behind the sofa???? Yes. 8)))
Then someone would make a porno channel, for bed-time viewing... 8( or 8),
depending.

There are lots of things we would like to see, i suspect, which would all
make work for the working man to do, but the damn game would get bigger, and
bigger....

Still no hair-streak, I am afraid, yesterday being side-tracked by an Indian
bed-spread with red satin sheets.
is a bummer. I told it to update all sizes and the single bed is rubbish. I
will have to backtrack and make it double only. It has once huge central
design which does not shift to the single bed with success.
Still, at last have pale worktops, though not good enough to share, they
make me very happy.

Granny.

 

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D wrote:

> Try it and see
> I wouldn't know what else...but try and make sure you are
> working on undimmed sims (i.e thumbnails)

I found it! (If you still remember this thread...) If I open the
thumbnailscreen I see loads of thumbnails - several per sim.
Turns out one of these is not dimmed... and that one works! So I
can PE my sims again, thanks to you <beam>.

T.